vermicelli

English

vermicelli

Etymology

From Italian vermicelli, plural of vermicello (“little worm”), from verme (“worm”), from Latin vermis + -cello (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /vəɹməˈsɛli/
• (US) IPA^(key): /vəɹməˈt͡ʃɛli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

vermicelli (usually uncountable, plural vermicellis)

1. Long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner.
   • 1831 October 15, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, “Introduction”, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], published 31 October 1831, →OCLC, pages ix–x:

     They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.

   • 2021 May 10, Rachel Roddy, “Vermicelli alla Sophia Loren: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with parsley pesto”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     A favourite old cookbook (and a pile of parsley to use up) inspire this simple salsa verde – parsley, anchovies, capers, olives – in a fairytale tangle of vermicelli[.]

2. Any type of long, thin noodles, as in rice vermicelli.
   • 2013 October 2, Felicity Cloake, “How to make perfect Singapore noodles”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Super-thin rice noodles, or vermicelli, are de rigueur here, but as with pad thai the secret is all in the preparation.

3. (UK) Chocolate sprinkles.

Descendants

• → Irish: veirmisilí

Translations

long, slender pasta

• Arabic: إِطْرِيَة f (ʔiṭriya), شُعَيْرِيَّة f (šuʕayriyya)
• Armenian: վերմիշել (hy) (vermišel)
• Azerbaijani: vermişel
• Belarusian: вермішэ́ль f (vjermišélʹ), вэрмішэ́ль f (vermišélʹ), ло́кшына f (lókšyna)
• Bulgarian: фиде́ n (fidé)
• Catalan: fideu de cabell d'àngel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 米粉 (mai⁵ fan²) (rice), 麵線 / 面线 (min⁶ sin⁴) (wheat)

  Mandarin: 米粉 (zh) (mǐfěn), 掛麵 / 挂面 (zh) (guàmiàn), 麵條 / 面条 (zh) (miàntiáo)

• Czech: vlasové nudle pl
• Dutch: vermicelli (nl) m, mihoen (nl) m (rice)
• Esperanto: vermiĉelo
• Estonian: vermišellid pl
• Finnish: vermiselli
• French: vermicelle (fr) f, vermicelles (fr) f pl
• Georgian: ვერმიშელი (vermišeli)
• German: Vermicelli f pl, Fadennudeln f pl
• Greek: φιδές (el) m (fidés), μαλλιά αγγέλου n pl (malliá angélou)
• Hindi: सेँवई (hi) f (sẽvaī), सेवँई (hi) f (sevãī), सेमई (hi) f (semaī), सेविका (hi) f (sevikā)
• Hungarian: cérnametélt (hu)
• Irish: veirmisilí m
• Italian: vermicello m, vermicelli m pl
• Japanese: ヴェルミチェッリ (verumicherri), 麺類 (ja) (めんるい, menrui)
• Korean: 베르미첼리 (bereumichelli)
• Lithuanian: vermišeliai m pl
• Macanese: lacassá
• Malay: bihun
• Persian: ورمیشل (fa) (vermišel)
• Polish: wermiszel (pl) m
• Portuguese: vermicelli m, aletria (pt) f
• Romanian: fidea (ro) f
• Russian: вермише́ль (ru) f (vermišélʹ), лапша́ (ru) f (lapšá)
• Sanskrit: सेविका (sa) f (sevikā)
• Spanish: vermicelli m
• Swedish: vermicelli (sv) c
• Tibetan: ཕིང (phing)
• Ukrainian: верміше́ль f (vermišélʹ), ло́кшина (uk) f (lókšyna), лапша́ f (lapšá)
• Uzbek: vermishel (uz)
• Vietnamese: mì sợi nhỏ (egg noodles), bún sợi nhỏ (rice noodles)
• Volapük: (singular) värmizäl, (plural) värmizäls

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ver.miˈt͡ʃɛl.li/
• Rhymes: -ɛlli
• Hyphenation: ver‧mi‧cèl‧li

Noun

vermicelli m pl

1. plural of vermicello

Portuguese

Noun

vermicelli m (plural vermicellis)

1. vermicelli (long, slender pasta)

   Synonym: aletria